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Asymptotic analysis of combined breather-kink modes in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain
Journal Article
Butt, I. A., & Wattis, J. A. Asymptotic analysis of combined breather-kink modes in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 231,

We find approximations to travelling breather solutions of the one-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattice. Both bright breather and dark breather solutions are found. We find that the existence of localised (bright) solutions depends upon the... Read More about Asymptotic analysis of combined breather-kink modes in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain.

Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional hexagonal Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
Journal Article
Butt, I. A., & Wattis, J. A. Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional hexagonal Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice

We consider a two-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattice with hexagonal symmetry. Using asymptotic methods based on small amplitude ansatz, at third order we obtain a eduction to a cubic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLS) for the breathe... Read More about Discrete breathers in a two-dimensional hexagonal Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice.

Using intelligent agents to understand organisational behaviour
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Celia, H., Clegg, C., Robinson, M., Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., & Sprigg, C. Using intelligent agents to understand organisational behaviour.

This paper introduces two ongoing research projects which seek to apply computer modelling techniques in order to simulate human behaviour within organisations. Previous research in other disciplines has suggested that complex social behaviours are g... Read More about Using intelligent agents to understand organisational behaviour.

Understanding the Impact of Management Practices and Other Factors on Productivity in the UK Retail Sector
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Celia, H., Clegg, C., Siebers, P., & Aickelin, U. Understanding the Impact of Management Practices and Other Factors on Productivity in the UK Retail Sector.

Insights into how management practices and other factors impact upon company productivity in the UK retail sector. Creating a sound base of applied knowledge and understanding to inform other components of our project.

An Agent-based Classification Model
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gu, F., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. An Agent-based Classification Model.

The major function of this model is to access the UCI Wisconsin Breast Cancer data-set[1] and classify the data items into two categories, which are normal and anomalous. This kind of classification can be referred as anomaly detection, which discri... Read More about An Agent-based Classification Model.

Human Behavious Modelling for Discrete Event and Agent Based Simulation: A Case Study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Majid, M., Aickelin, U., & Siebers, P. Human Behavious Modelling for Discrete Event and Agent Based Simulation: A Case Study.

This study is about the comparison of simulation techniques between Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Agent Based Simulation (ABS). DES is one of the best-known types of simulation techniques in Operational Research. Recently, there has been an e... Read More about Human Behavious Modelling for Discrete Event and Agent Based Simulation: A Case Study.

OriDB: a DNA replication origin database
Journal Article
Nieduszynski, C. A., Hiraga, S., Ak, P., Benham, C. J., & Donaldson, A. D. OriDB: a DNA replication origin database. Nucleic Acids Research, 35(Databa), Article D40-D46. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl758

Replication of eukaryotic chromosomes initiates at multiple sites called replication origins. Replication origins are best understood in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where several complementary studies have mapped their locations genom... Read More about OriDB: a DNA replication origin database.

The Application of a Dendric Cell Algorithm to a Robotic Classifier
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oates, R., Greensmith, J., Aickelin, U., Garibaldi, J., & Kendall, G. The Application of a Dendric Cell Algorithm to a Robotic Classifier.

The dendritic cell algorithm is an immune-inspired technique for processing time-dependant data. Here we propose it as a possible solution for a robotic classification problem. The dendritic cell algorithm is implemented on a real robot and an invest... Read More about The Application of a Dendric Cell Algorithm to a Robotic Classifier.

Health and Health Policy
Book Chapter
Pascall, G. Health and Health Policy. In J. Baldock, N. Manning, & S. Vickerstaff (Eds.), Social Policy: Third Edition. Oxford University Press

Contingency and Event in China's New Documentary Film Movement
Book
Robinson, L. (2007). Contingency and Event in China's New Documentary Film Movement. Nottingham EPrints

This paper addresses the issue of contingency and the event vis-a-vis private and public documentaries. In China, the private and the public documentary form are often understood as mutually antagonistic, with the former defining itself explicitly ag... Read More about Contingency and Event in China's New Documentary Film Movement.

Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century
Journal Article
Sargisson, L. (2007). Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century. Manuscript submitted for publication

Why is it so difficult to respond to religious fundamentalism from within a liberal paradigm? This paper explores a core problem within religious fundamentalism, stemming from its relationship to the phenomenon of utopianism. This is a complex relati... Read More about Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century.

A Multi-Agent Simulation of Retail Management Practices
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. A Multi-Agent Simulation of Retail Management Practices.

We apply Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand the relationship between human resource management practices and retail productivity. Despite the fac... Read More about A Multi-Agent Simulation of Retail Management Practices.

Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity.

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand the relati... Read More about Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity.

Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety
Journal Article
Waring, J. Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety. Health, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459307070801

‘Systems thinking’ is an important feature of the emerging ‘patient safety’ agenda. As a key component of a ‘safety culture’, it encourages clinicians to look past individual error to recognise the latent factors that threaten safety. This paper inv... Read More about Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety.

Motif detection inspired by immune memory
Journal Article
Wilson, W., Birkin, P., & Aickelin, U. Motif detection inspired by immune memory. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4628, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73922-7_24

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents an area of key interest to many researchers. In this paper we present the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is able to identify variable length unkn... Read More about Motif detection inspired by immune memory.